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Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Overture to this Collection' to 'Presentation on Psychical Causality' (2024)
Book
Neill, C., Hook, D., & Vanheule, S. (Eds.). (2024). Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Overture to this Collection' to 'Presentation on Psychical Causality'. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003368649

Reading Lacan's Écrits is the first extensive set of commentaries on the complete edition of Lacan's Écrits to be published in English, providing an indispensable companion piece to some of Lacan's best-known but notoriously challenging writings.... Read More about Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Overture to this Collection' to 'Presentation on Psychical Causality'.

Introduction: La trahison de l'écriture (2024)
Book Chapter
Neill, C. (2024). Introduction: La trahison de l'écriture. In C. Neill, D. Hook, & S. Vanheule (Eds.), Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Overture' to 'Presentation on Psychical Causality'. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003368649-1

What kind of book is Lacan's Écrits? This is a more pressing question than it may appear. Knowing what type of book the Écrits is would provide us with a strategy for how one might go about reading – if “reading” is even the most appropriate imperati... Read More about Introduction: La trahison de l'écriture.

The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience (2024)
Book Chapter
Neill, C. (2024). The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience. In C. Neill, D. Hook, & S. Vanheule (Eds.), Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Overture' to 'Presentation on Psychical Causality'. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003368649-6

The short essay ‘The mirror stage as formative of the I function as revealed in psychoanalytic experience’ is without doubt Lacan's best-known piece of writing. Over its dense seven pages, Lacan presents a repost to both Sartre's existentialism and d... Read More about The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience.

Aggressiveness in Psychoanalysis (2024)
Book Chapter
Neill, C., & Eyers, T. (2024). Aggressiveness in Psychoanalysis. In C. Neill, D. Hook, & S. Vanheule (Eds.), Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Overture' to 'Presentation on Psychical Causality'. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003368649-7

This chapter provides a close reading of Lacan's essay ‘Aggressiveness in Psychoanalysis’. In this écrit, Lacan situates aggression as a fundamental force in the emergence of subjectivity and in the formation of the ego in particular. In the process,... Read More about Aggressiveness in Psychoanalysis.

Overture to this Collection (2024)
Book Chapter
Hook, D., Neill, C., & Vanheule, S. (2024). Overture to this Collection. In C. Neill, D. Hook, & S. Vanheule (Eds.), Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Overture' to 'Presentation on Psychical Causality'. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003368649-2

By citing Buffon's famous aphorism “The style is the man himself” as the opening lines of his Écrits, Lacan invites us to consider a number of salient themes concerning the following: the role of reading and interpretation in psychoanalysis; paradoxe... Read More about Overture to this Collection.

While Not Having the Last Word … (2023)
Book Chapter
Neill, C. (2024). While Not Having the Last Word …. In C. Owens (Ed.), Studying Lacan’s Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis (166-179). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003450795-8

This chapter traces the final session of Lacan’s Seminar VII where he draws many of the key strands of the seminar together as close as he can to a conclusion. The insights of the seminar are, however, such that the very thinking through of ethics th... Read More about While Not Having the Last Word ….

The Ethics of Inisherin: Seminar on Ethics of Psychoanalysis (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Neill, C. (2023, May). The Ethics of Inisherin: Seminar on Ethics of Psychoanalysis. Presented at Irish Council for Psychotherapy seminar, Dublin

In this talk, Calum Neill will explore Lacan’s four propositions on ethics from his Seminar on the Ethics of Psychoanalysis and seek to illustrate his arguments through Martin McDonagh’s 2022 film The Banshees of Inisherin. This will allow us to exam... Read More about The Ethics of Inisherin: Seminar on Ethics of Psychoanalysis.

Psychosis and Extreme States: An Ethic for Treatment (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Neill, C., & Fimiani, B. (2023, February). Psychosis and Extreme States: An Ethic for Treatment. Presented at Online event at The Freud Museum, London [online]

The Freud Museum welcomes psychoanalyst Bret Fimiani, who will be in discussion with the Palgrave Lacan series editor, Calum Neill, for his latest publication Psychosis and Extreme States: An Ethic for Treatment (2021, Palgrave). The book offers a ne... Read More about Psychosis and Extreme States: An Ethic for Treatment.

‘Raw Sex?’: An Exploration of the Political Potential of Lacan’s Non-conclusive Binary (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Neill, C. (2023, January). ‘Raw Sex?’: An Exploration of the Political Potential of Lacan’s Non-conclusive Binary. Presented at International Psychoanalytic University Berlin, Berlin

The Lecture will explore Lacan’s reformulation of two of Freud’s key myths- that of Oedipus and that of the primal horde- and will show how Lacan fruitfully offers us a radically new conception of gender. This new conception not only contests the nat... Read More about ‘Raw Sex?’: An Exploration of the Political Potential of Lacan’s Non-conclusive Binary.

Stuck in a Revolving Door (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Neill, C. (2023, January). Stuck in a Revolving Door. Presented at Invited Workshop, Ruhr Universitat, Bochum

Between his 16th and 19th seminars, Lacan introduced and played with the notion of what has come to be known as the four discourses. This quasi-algebraic schema can be understood as a mechanism to describe the structures and functioning of social di... Read More about Stuck in a Revolving Door.

Putting Lacan's Four Discourses to Work (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Neill, C. (2022, October). Putting Lacan's Four Discourses to Work. Presented at Lacan: Clinic & Culture, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh

While Lacan’s teaching is directed much of the time toward a clinical application and the training of analysts, his writings and seminars are also replete with references to cultural objects and discussions of extra-clinical matters. This inclusive r... Read More about Putting Lacan's Four Discourses to Work.

Virtual Enjoyment - Close Reading (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Neill, C. (2022, July). Virtual Enjoyment - Close Reading. Presented at Virtual Enjoyment, Amsterdam

This session will provide an opportunity to explore two chapters from Lacan’s Seminar XVII. The primary aim of the session is to engage collectively in a slow reading of the seminar working together to disentangle and shine some light on Lacan’s deve... Read More about Virtual Enjoyment - Close Reading.

Virtual Enjoyment - Introduction (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Neill, C. (2022, July). Virtual Enjoyment - Introduction. Presented at Virtual Enjoyment, Amsterdam

This introductory session will provide an overview and context for the sessions ahead. It will provide a gloss of the two seminars, Seminar XVI From an Other to the other, and Seminar XVII The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, on which we will focus over... Read More about Virtual Enjoyment - Introduction.

Lacan's Seminar XVII (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Neill, C. (2021, September). Lacan's Seminar XVII. Presented at Ghent University Intensive Doctoral School, Ghent University

This two day seminar will be dedicated to reading Jacques Lacan's Seminar XVII, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, including an overview of the text and focused close readings.

Towards an Understanding of the Olfactory Drive (2021)
Book Chapter
Neill, C., & Di Gianfrancesco, C. (2021). Towards an Understanding of the Olfactory Drive. In B. R. McLaughlin, & E. Daffron (Eds.), The Body in Theory: Essays After Lacan and Foucault (25-33). Jefferson, NC: McFarland